The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| adopted mover plan 10 tOhSi
| for the man who breaches ut that place; lie
offers n glass of larger beer to all who will at
| tend church.
| a uRrEEl;-YEAR-oLD girl of Pittsneld, Mass.
worked all last winter in the woods with her
| father. taking mans place. She took care of
| her team of four oxen and hauled logs from the
woods TO the mill at West Athens, working many
| days when most men would have pronounced IL
| very rough To be on the road.
A PARIS cABMAN who committed suicide the
other day left the following explanatory note:
II leave this world because it pleases me to do
so. have had enough of driving other people
| about in this world. | am going to see II IN the
| other world people drive differently. All ask
| is that no fuss may be made about me.
Two LADS who worked a neat swindling act
were tripped up in Chicago last week. They
dealt in stolen dogs, and While one was out
| finding CANNES that were not lost" the other
would be restoring the booty of the previous day
| to the owners, and receive the reward onered
through the newspapers. When captured the
| youngsters had eighty odd dogs on hand
| A NEW YORK MAN has published catalogue of
| autograph letters, which are for sale, with the
prices attached, which shows curious financial
estimates. The father of Queen Victoria goes
| for 81 80, Napoleon ranks 81 better, 10 50,
| Goethe is set at Sc 80, Benjamin Franklin is
well up in the scale at SO, Abraham Lincoln is
worth SIG and Thomas Paine, set down as an
| atheist, IeduS Iue uSU ub 2Sl
| BUFFALO lady had peculiar experience in
| travelling in New York. 1t was a stormy night,
and high wind was blowing in fierce gusts. In
| passing from one car to another a sudden blast
| wrapped her skirts around the brake, and in
| freeing herself the cloth was badly rent. Inc
pocket of the dress was torn off, and her pocket
| book containing money, tickets keys ana
| checks sailed off into the black night.
GEN W. w H DAVIS, United States Pension
larvc
the month of April just closed, signed his name
| 24,310 times on as many checks. One gold pen
| only was used in signing the checks, besides
| doing a great deal of other work. The pen APP
pears to be as good as new, although it has been
In use constansly for upwards of five years hav-
| ing formerly been the property of Chief Clerk
| Shelmire.
THE streets of Canton are only three or four
feet wide, paved with stone. The inhabitants
throw their garbage into the street, the effect of
| which may be imagined Above the streets are
| covered with mating or bamboo network,
| reaching from one side to the other. This eX-
| cludes both light and air and tends to make the
| street odors emphatically stronger. Looked at
| from an eminence the whole city seems to be
| rooted.
| KRUPP the great gunmal1er of Essen, is now
| at work upon gun of 139 tons Its length is
| 5215 feet, and its calibre 157 inches 1t will
throw steel shell feet inches long, weighing
| 1880 pounds, and another shell 5 feet inches
| long, weighing 2,314 pounds Since 1868 the
| penetrating power of projectiles has been IN,
| creased tenfold. Now Krupp gun will pierce
an arnor plate of a thickness three times as
| great as the bore of the gun.
| A LANDLORD was buried in Berlin on Easter
Monday such as is rarely heard of nowadays.
He had owned the house for 81 years, and dur
| ing this time had never warned out nor ever
raised the rent on any one of the tenants. None
of the essees ever had a written lease, but prob
ably for this very felt all the more secure
| in the worthy old fellows house who lived quiet
| ly among them, devoting his time to the edu-
cation of an adopted child and to his passion for
| music.
A LETTER from the Mayor of Plozevet Finis-
tere) has been published in the Depeehe, a jour
nal of Brest, Brittany, stating that three guns
belonging to the English frigate Amazon, which
went down before lozevet in 1897 which engag-
! ing the French ship Les Droits de rHomme,
| have just been dug out of bed of sand about
six feet deep. The guns are to be placed at the
| foot of the record of Les Droits de 'Homme, in
| commemoration not only of the valor shown on
| both sides during the battle, but as a record of
| the humanity shown by the English after the
| fight in trying to save the sinking Dr0ts de
| rHomme, for which all the English prisoners of
| the Amazon were liberated and sent back to
| England.
REV. GEORGE E. MAcARDLE, of Lafayette, N.
Y, is being rather severely criticised by his
church for producing dramatic situation in
one of his recent sermons. This is how he tells
the story: "You see was illustrating one of
| Neil BOWS sermons where he is said to have
| frightened a whole multitude into repentance
| by having small boy up in treetop while he
| was preaching to an outdoor audience about
the resurrection. The boy had a trumpet and
| blew at the proper time. Well, l had had it
arranged with the organist, and after 1 had
described how, when all were in their graves,
the angel Gabriel would then appear, l said:
| Blow, Gabriel blowr The organ footed and
| the effect was grand. Mr. Gaylord himself said
so at the time, and all the rest that heard it,"
Mr.. WEBSTER, on one of his visits to Marsh
| field heard and brought back to Washington the
following good story about the Rev. DR.. Allyn,
an eccentric Congregational clergyman at Dux-
| bury. When violin was first introduced into
| the choir of Dr. Allyn's church the innovation
| gave great offense to some of the worthy parish
toner's. Especially was the player of the bass
| viol exercised with sorrow and indignation when
| the frivolous and profane fiddle first took its
place in the house of God by the side of his Sc
date and portly instrument He accordingly
laid the case before the parson, who after listen
ing soberly to his complaints, replied: 1T may
be as you say, sir; l don't know but you are
| right; but if you are it strikes me the greater
the fiddle, the greater the SIM" The hero of the
| big fiddle was untuned.
HERE is cat story which certainly is not out
done in the evidence of intelligence it affords by
any dog story that has been told of late and can
be vouched for Mistress Puss lives in a family
as its best beloved pet and has much careful
attention. Each year when the family goes into
the country of course Mistress Puss goes too
and thus she has become used to travelling and
its accompanying discomforts. She has become
used also TO the various signs of approaching
migration and knows what it means when the
carpets come up and trunks are packed. This
| particular season Mistress Puss, being the happy
mother of promising kitten, was very anxious
and nervous as the time for fitting drew near
and at last became so troubled that she attracted
the attention of the family by her peculiar be-
| havior. On following her they found the cause
She had packed her little one in a partially
filed trunk lest it should be overlooked in the
| moving.
SPEAKING of the recent attempt to kill him,
poor old Bazaine said to London Telegraph
correspondent that he had come to resign him.
self during the past years to his painful fate
which doomed him to be an obligatory and
enforced victim, a sort of consolatory holocaust
for defeat which was inevitable He once
more insisted that had Marshal Mcmahon helped
him in time things would have taken different
turn, and he took credit to himself For having
avoided bonbardment, which would have
caused the destruction of thousands Of men
Unfortunately his coun.rymen were tickle.
Asked his opinion as 70 Gen. Boulanger and the
present situation. the exMarshal said that If the
chief of the French army were of q merit
which corresponded with the popularity tc